Toward usable evidence: Optimizing knowledge accumulation in HCI research on health behavior change

Predrag Klasnja; Eric B. Hekler; Elizabeth V. Korinek; John Harlow; Sonali R. Mishra

doi:10.1145/3025453.3026013

Toward usable evidence: Optimizing knowledge accumulation in HCI research on health behavior change

Predrag Klasnja, Eric B. Hekler, Elizabeth V. Korinek, John Harlow, Sonali R. Mishra

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Abstract

Over the last ten years, HCI researchers have introduced a range of novel ways to support health behavior change, from glanceable displays to sophisticated game dynamics. Yet, this research has not had as much impact as its originality warrants. A key reason for this is that common forms of evaluation used in HCI make it difficult to effectively accumulate - and use - knowledge across research projects. This paper proposes a strategy for HCI research on behavior change that retains the field's focus on novel technical contributions while enabling accumulation of evidence that can increase impact of individual research projects both in HCI and the broader behavior-change science. The core of this strategy is an emphasis on the discovery of causal effects of individual components of behavior-change technologies and the precise ways in which those effects vary with individual differences, design choices, and contexts in which those technologies are used.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Explore, Innovate, Inspire
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	3071-3082
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450346559
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026013
State	Published - May 2 2017
Event	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, United States Duration: May 6 2017 → May 11 2017

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2017-May

Conference

Conference	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	5/6/17 → 5/11/17

Keywords

Behavior change
Evaluation methods
Health informatics
User studies

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Klasnja, P., Hekler, E. B., Korinek, E. V., Harlow, J., & Mishra, S. R. (2017). Toward usable evidence: Optimizing knowledge accumulation in HCI research on health behavior change. In CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire (pp. 3071-3082). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2017-May). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026013

Toward usable evidence: Optimizing knowledge accumulation in HCI research on health behavior change. / Klasnja, Predrag; Hekler, Eric B.; Korinek, Elizabeth V. et al.
CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 3071-3082 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2017-May).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Klasnja, P, Hekler, EB, Korinek, EV, Harlow, J & Mishra, SR 2017, Toward usable evidence: Optimizing knowledge accumulation in HCI research on health behavior change. in CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, vol. 2017-May, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 3071-3082, 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017, Denver, United States, 5/6/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026013

Klasnja P, Hekler EB, Korinek EV, Harlow J, Mishra SR. Toward usable evidence: Optimizing knowledge accumulation in HCI research on health behavior change. In CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery. 2017. p. 3071-3082. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3025453.3026013

Klasnja, Predrag ; Hekler, Eric B. ; Korinek, Elizabeth V. et al. / Toward usable evidence : Optimizing knowledge accumulation in HCI research on health behavior change. CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. pp. 3071-3082 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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